Smoking is one of the main risk factors that has affected human mortality and life expectancy over the past century. Smoking accounts for a large part of the nonlinearities in the growth of life…
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Assistant Professor
Applications are invited for two Full-Time Tenure-Track Assistant Professor positions in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. Each appointment is for a full time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 2021. We encourage applicants whose interests align with our commitment to fostering diversity and inclusivity to apply. All UW faculty engage in teaching, research, and service.
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Acting Assistant Professor
Applications are invited for a non-tenure track Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This is a full time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 2021.
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Technical Reports
Hotelling’s T2 - test for the mean of a multivariate normal distribution is one of the triumphs of classical multivariate analysis. It is uniformly most powerful among invariant tests,…
Sea ice, or frozen ocean water, annually freezes and melts in the Arctic. The need for accu- rate forecasts of where sea ice will be located weeks to months in advance has increased as the amount…
Recent News
Dear Friends of Statistics,
As the new Department Chair and a new member of the UW family, I am delighted to share with you an update on our accomplishments over the last few months, as well as my…
Published: Thursday, August 20, 2020
Updated: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington are actively engaged in research related to COVID-19…
Each year in the fall, the Department of Statistics awards talented graduate students for the Z.W. Birnbaum award and the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award. The Z.W. Birnbaum award recognizes the…